Automobile-carried signal mechanism.



E. BEVINGTON, AUTOMOBILE CARRIED SIGNAL MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-13,19l6- Patented J an. 1, 1918.

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isknowu that l, iio 'ana BEVINGTOK'I, a citizen of the United ingai Hamilton. in the county of lies and State of {)liiO, have invent-e4 certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Carried Signal lil'echanisin, of which the following is a specificaf n.

The object of my invension is to provide novel form of signal, adapted to be sea-2iily attached to and. removed from an automobile, which. will practical and exceedingly useful in operation, and which may be manually operable with a maximum of ease and facility.

Another important object is to provide a signal which may be manufactured a nominal cost and sold at a very low figur Another object is co provide a signal which is simple in design, and Whose few parts are not likely to get out of order, ailfi which is, therefore, durable in use.

V/i'h these objects in viev; and others appearing as the specification proceeds and the nature of the invention more fully appears, the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts of a signal, as will be hereinafeei' fully olescribecl in the specification, summed up in file claims, and illustrated in the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing. fanning part of my specification, and in which like ieference-characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, I have illustrated a form 01": embodiment of my ventive ideas capable of carryin out underlying principles thereof. T e several figures of the drawing may be briefly clescrihed. as follows:

Figure l is a perspective vie of nal adapted to be supported, or iache l so an automobile, in a vertical posiiion;

Fig. 2 is a like view of the signal adapted to be support-eel, or attached antenna bile, in a horizontal position; v

Fig. is a top plan vie v of the of F 2, with the parts inovecl inio noel lion shown in. clotted lines in Fig. 2, anti the spring-arm shown in section; anal sig- Fig. 4 is a session on she lice l-i, of Fig. 53.

1 ztlesignaies a w nner-sing ineinloes,-in H1115 instance, a n ate, which prefeiaif and advantageous 3* provided means j of Leis-sis permiieing is to be secured to a part of the automobile, Within convenient reach of the oyeraior, such means, in this insaance, being suitable aperluz'es 2, whereby screws, or the like, may be thereihrough. The is desirably of some material which, enough possessing the necessary strength and. clursbiliivy, is, at the same time, inexpensive,as a suitable metal.

3 designaies a suitable signal, which may be a dish, a shown, and, desired, this disk may he colored, as hy'heing painted red.

This disk-signal 3 is carried by a ifiBIIlher having pivotal movement on the plate 1; and, in this instai'ice is shown carries as the end of a rod 4 suitably pivoted to the "place i, as byheing orovidecl with an anglecl or bent portion 5 rotatably mounted. in bearings carried by the plate 1, these hearings lacing preferably in the form of tongues i3, 6'

desirably integral with the plate 1 anoiloent or rolled over the bent portion 5 of the rod and, as shown, these hearings are carriecl by one of she edges of the plafae. The} bent portion 5 consiaitules a rockshafh After passing "chi-oue'li the bearings 1'5, 6 the bent poriion 5 of the Pool luiiites with a lever i, desirably in the form of a rod. (as shown) of spring; material. The lever can at its otherwise free extremity, a handle 8, for convenient manipulation thereof.

The invention COIRPIGllEildS suitable means for yieldingly looking or holding the movable parts of the mechanism in iilie line position shown in liie drawing; ancl, so this end, the plate 1 is a instance, provided, along one of edges, with a flange whose Willi in cross section (see i) may he s'ti'aiglii with inward-bent eiige its top. in. operation, to bring the movable parts into the doiztecl line position shown in presses upward on, the lever 7, which, being of signing llliiiiilill, flexes inn and and swings pass the top if? oil-he flange 9, which hacl'ilieieioioieheld said lever ugion the with the signal-disk 3 (lions 530 the position shown in Fig. 2. A; :everse 3.9 or? she flange 9 and onto the plale i, been 2, she operator pulls, or;

the posi hon shown in full lines in Fig. 2; where-V ncierstsm as cemerock-shaft nge carried dingly lockmfi EL 5110 one direc- 5 Easing fchu whaiz 1 claim ushers Satin- In signal moved 

